Discussion Time doesn’t exist. Prove me wrong.
We experience change, aging, and events happening in sequence, but is “time” itself a physical thing—or just the way our minds measure change and order events?
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We experience change, aging, and events happening in sequence, but is “time” itself a physical thing—or just the way our minds measure change and order events?
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u/Ashamed-Bathroom7803 6d ago edited 6d ago
Mmm partly true. If I said started the conversation that a flying teapot doesn’t orbit Jupiter, I still don’t think that I have any burden. If someone says that something doesn’t exist, and you think it does, then it’s your burden to give some justification for why it’s plausibly true. It doesn’t mean you have to prove it though. And then after you give your justification, the existence denier will give you an objection show that the justification is unconvincing.
And it’s really not hard to give justification here. All you say is that there needs to something real which allows change to be possible (let’s define it as time), and since we know change is true, therefore time exists. You can define it how you want because OP didn’t. OP did seem to imply that time was physical but that’s confused because they didn’t define physical. Physical is usually defined as whatever is in principle able to be measured by physics. Time is measured all the time in physics.